Grizzlies Drop Third Straight Game
August 30, 2024 - Frontier League (FL)
Gateway Grizzlies News Release
Sauget, Ill. - The Gateway Grizzlies dropped a third straight game for the first time all season, losing 4-2 to the Florence Y'alls at Grizzlies Ballpark on Friday night.
The Grizzlies got the initial lead in the contest in the bottom of the fourth inning when Peter Zimmermann continued his home run tear, lining his 21st of the season over the right field wall to put the home team up 1-0. But that lead did not last, as Florence got three straight hits to begin the next half-inning off Teague Conrad (7-4), with an RBI single by Justin Lavey tying the game at 1-1. Conrad would come as close as possible to getting out of the rest of the inning unscathed, but with two outs and two strikes on Brian Fuentes, he surrendered a go-ahead, two-run single that made it 3-1 Florence.
The two teams then traded solo home runs in the sixth inning, with Dalton Davis squeaking one over the left field wall in the top half to make it 4-1, and Zimmermann answering with a moonshot off Hunter Mink (2-0) to left-center field to get the Grizzlies back within 4-2, his second of the game and his sixth against the Y'alls in August.
But Gateway would get no closer, as they got a man on base to bring the tying run to the plate against Matt Fernandez in the seventh, eighth, and ninth innings, but could not score, dropping the series opener at home. They will look to snap their slide in the penultimate game of the regular season on Saturday, August 31, at 6:30 p.m. at Grizzlies Ballpark.
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